PLEASE I NEED A POWER ON PASSWORD FOR MY IBM T23

Please try Windows Password Recovery, it can help you unlock locked IBM PC.

in the password place type administrater some times that over rides youre pass word and you can try running in safe mode and then you can delete youre password you forgot hope this helps

Hi,

To unlock the bios password on your laptop, you will need to remove the cmos battery on your laptop for some minutes and insert back, the cmos battery is located on the motherboard of your laptop, once the cmos battery is removed from the motherboard for some minutes, the bios password will be reset, and that fix the problem.

Take care.

If a BIOS or HD lock password you are out of luck.

BIOS password means replacement of the system board. HD password requires replacement of the HD and reinstallation of all software on new drive.

This is a security feature so no one can steal laptops and try to use or sell it.

Hi,
You have 3 choice (i mean, thats all i know:) )

1: Get a new BIOS
2: Get the password from latest user (dont know if laptop yours or not)
3: Get the BIOS Flashed (Which is costly)

There is no way to unlock it without open it ,sorry.
Good luck....

setup manual 7pgs
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6732504/Ibm-t23-Setup
quick guide 86pgs
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6732510/IBM-T23-Quick-Guide


hope that helps!

Sharon, you have a extremly difficult problem.
Why is the laptop in for repair, is the laptop faulty, how do you know the hard drive is faulty when you cannot start up the laptop?

It appears that you have or someone has set up a power on password and possibly a password protection on the hard drive.
If you hard drive is faulty it is highly unlikely that you cannot retrieve any data off your hard drive with or without the passwords.
IBM ThinkPads laptops store the Power On password on an EEPROM chip and removing the BIOS battery cannot clear this password. there are no backdoor passwords that you can use. The passwords are used to prevent unauthorized access to the laptop and its data.

If there isn't a password on the hard disk, and the hard disk is not faulty, you can remove the hard drive and connect it to a working computer to read and copy off your data. I suggest you connect your hard drive using a USB hard drive adapter and connecting it to a working computer's USB port.

IBM states that if you don't know the Power On password, therefore you cannot get into the BIOS to remove the password, and you need to replace the motherboard (this is not cheap).
There is a way to hack into the laptop, it required some electronic experience to build a reader device, dismantle the laptop, solder it to the EEPROM chip, connect the output to a working computer, run a reader program, locate the password from this data, unsolder the wires, put the laptop back together and boot up and enter the password.
For detailed information go to www.allservice.ro/forum
I have successfully removed these passwords, it is a lot of work, and needs to be tackled by an experienced person.

Best of luck.

Here is download page, follow indications on IBM website
Lenovo Support & downloads - Drivers and software - ThinkPad T22, T23

Ah! Passwords.... Do you see anything about WINDOWS before it ask? Then its a windows password and you can go hunt all over filesharing land for a PE disk, preferably a Winternals PE disk.. or be nice and buy one.. On a borrowed computer of course..

Nothing about windows before it asks for a P/W? Oh goody bios password... Much more trouble.. On IBM machine really nasty... Your HD is probably locked too.. You can spend hours on google after this, but you may have a brick.. or be looking at building a custom board with instructions from this guy in Australia, hooking teeny tiny wires to a chip on your laptop baord, running a program and sending the result and $25 to him..
IBM laptops=great bloody bios password security.. Oh.. Co. up in Canada does it for $400, after proof you own the thing..

Good hunting..

The power on password is stored on an EEPROM chip and removing the BIOS/CMOS battery won't help.
You need to read the EEPROM chip to get the password.
GOTO
http://sodoityourself.com/hacking-ibm-thinkpad-bios-password/
for solution to your problem (you need to construct an interface hardware and install two programs on a working computer)
Have fun
ChrisH